Quote: Brodie123 "Cummings like Hick and Thaller, have no idea what so ever, it doesn't help when the linesmen seem to miss everything. Previously, Ganson played to his own rule book, no wonder more than half the comments on here are about the standard of the referee. Its the same throughout SL, the refs play to the home crowds the home team seem to get the 50/50 calls and you have to play exceptionally well to win away from home. While we was hammered by Warrington, the games between Wigan and Saints could have gone either way. Maybe we should play with two refs like in OZ and lets see what happens on this basis. Going forward if we cut out the mistakes we should be fine when playing either home or away. Wakefield this Friday fingers crossed and hopefully it should be two points.'"
The thing is that ALL 50-50 calls, by definition, will polarise both sets of supporters.
I honestly don't think the referees are biased, I think they're trying to do a difficult and often thankless job. If there were as many people out there training to be referees and prepared to be threatened etc. on the job, as there were complaining about standards, we might be better off.
Agree re. Cummings, he's not adding much to commentary for me.
If we aren't making silly mistakes, and getting beaten because of refereeing decisions, I might see it differently but we had more than enough opportunities within our control to beat both Wigan and Saints. Instead we're still dropping the ball, missing tackles and giving daft penalties away.